Possible to get this formatting?

[wrybread]

I'm using this calendar as a model:

http://gizmoware.net/tides/clamming/model.pdf

This is my current progress:

http://gizmoware.net/tides/clamming/2019.pdf

The main thing I can't figure out is how to add "inner padding" between the calendars. What I mean by that is separating the calendars with some space, but with only a single line between the calendars (as in model.pdf) as opposed to each calendar drawing a border. I think that looks a lot cleaner design wise.

I also can't figure out how to add a little padding above and below the month name.

I'm fine with modifying the code to achieve this. Currently I'm editing layouts/classic.py to remove the boxes around the day names, and layouts/_base.py to get the different colors for different holiday types (in my case that's different levels of low tide to indicate how good the clamming will be on that day).

[geotz]

Hello,

I've managed to get something close to your model which I believe with your design (fonts, colors etc.) will look much better. I have disabled the boxes around month & day names, it suffices to pass argument stroke_rgba=None to the draw_box routine, but you've already figured that out. For the month box itself it is a bit more tricky:
First, I am cheating a little bit: if the box has no fill (fill_rgba=None), which is the case for the whole month box frame, then I draw the whole border. I the box has fill (which is the case for each day cell), then I draw only the top side -- this accumulates into horizontal lines.
For the whole month box, I draw the frame with global --padding=0 (command-line argument), so that they become adjoint tiles.
For the interior, I am adding a bit of a border so that the horizontal lines do not touch the frame.
I send you the patch to see which parts of the code I have modified, as well as a sample of the final result.
If you need extra border only around month name, you can apply the same technique to shrink the rect as I did for the interior of the month frame.

lightweight-patch.txt
lightweight.pdf

[wrybread]

Thank you so much, works perfectly. A small change that I think is a fix. In classic.py, I changed this line:
rect2 = (rect2[0]+offset[0]/2.0, rect2[1]+offset[1]/2.0, rect2[2], rect2[3])

To:
rect2 = (rect2[0]+offset[0], rect2[1]+offset[1], rect2[2], rect2[3])

Otherwise the centering wasn't working for me. This gets more apparent if you change the amount of inner padding to some number other than 2 as in your patch.

And if anyone wants to add an "--inner_padding" CLI option, here's my changes. I'm glad to post as a diff file, but my files are already heavily modified so just posting notes for now:

In classic.py, change:

grid = GLayout(rect_from_origin(rect), 7, 7)

To:

        if self.options.inner_padding:
            pad = mm_to_dots(self.options.inner_padding); # compute padding from mm to our coordinate system
            rect2 = rect_pad(rect, (pad,)*4) # shrink month rect by pad
            offset = (rect2[0]-rect[0],rect2[1]-rect[1]) # get offset of new top-left corner wrt prev rect
            rect2 = rect_from_origin(rect2); # move new rect to origin (for grid computation)
            rect2 = (rect2[0]+offset[0], rect2[1]+offset[1], rect2[2], rect2[3])             
            grid = GLayout(rect2, 7, 7)
        else:
            grid = GLayout(rect_from_origin(rect), 7, 7)

And in /layouts/_base.py add this line below the line with "--padding":

    parser.add_option("--inner_padding", type="float", default=None,
                      help="set some padding inside of the month boundaries. Experimental.")

To produce my calendar I'm then running:

callirhoe.py --cols=3 --padding=0 --inner_padding=8 --no-shadow --dpi=120 --paper=700:800 2019.pdf

Here's my old calendar without this patch:

http://gizmoware.net/tides/clamming/2019-old.pdf

And here's with the patch:

http://gizmoware.net/tides/clamming/2019.pdf